A response to Walter Glannon.

Brain Implants to Erase Memories

Minimizing harm via psychological intervention: response to Glannon.

In a recent discussion, Walter Glannon discusses a number of ways we might try to minimise harm to patients who experience intraoperative awareness. In this response, I direct attention to a possibility that deserves further attention. It might be that a kind of psychological intervention--namely, informing patients of the possibility of intraoperative awareness and of what to expect in such a ...

Commentary: Stabilizing Constructs through Collaboration across Different Research Fields as a Way to Foster the Integrative Approach of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Project

Citation: Glannon W (2016) Commentary: Stabilizing Constructs through Collaboration across Different Research Fields as a Way to Foster the Integrative Approach of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Project. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 10:363. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00363 Commentary: Stabilizing Constructs through Collaboration across Different Research Fields as a Way to Foster the Integrative App...

The Risk in Living Kidney Donation.

This article examines two questions. (1) If prospective living kidney donors knew of the lifetime risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in their remaining kidney, then would they be as willing to give it up? and (2) What should transplant organizations and physicians be telling those who express an interest in donating a kidney about risk? Based on the principle that prospective donors must be...

Neuroethics and Nanoethics: Do We Risk Ethical Myopia?

In recent years, two distinct trajectories of bioethical inquiry have emerged: neuroethics and nanoethics. The former deals with issues in neuroscience, whereas the latter deals with issues in nanoscience and nanotechnology. In both cases, the ethical inquiries have coalesced in response to rapidly increasing scientific and engineering developments in each field. Both also present major issues ...